The Great LIFE Photographers
The Editors of Life
Introduction by John Loengard
A Reminiscence by Gordon Parks
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| I cannot recommend the LIFE collection highly enough. It intrigues and stimulates more than the sea of data that sweeps through our lives each day’ | | – The Guardian |
| ‘It’s hard to think of anyone who wouldn’t love to receive this book … stunning’ | | – The Independent |
This is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever assembled.
The best work of every LIFE magazine staff photographer, as well as that of a handful of others closely affiliated with the magazine, is on display in this book. Here are portfolios by over 100 great photographers, including Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and, most recently, Joe McNally's memorable work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11.
Here are Capa’s pictures from the D-Day landing, Mydans’s of MacArthur striding ashore, Bourke-White’s evidence of the Holocaust, David Douglas Duncan’s Korea, Larry Burrows’s Vietnam, Ralph Morse’s chronicle of the Mercury 7 astronauts. Here are intimate, defining – and revealing – portraits of celebrities, from Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe to the Beatles and Michael Jackson.
Short biographical profiles, along with portraits of all the photographers, accompany the portfolios making the book an indispensable reference.
See a list of the Great Life Photographers
John Loengard was the picture editor at LIFE magazine for over
twenty-five years. Gordon Parks is an award-winning photographer, writer and filmmaker.
Also of interest:
As I See It: The Photographs of John Loengard
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and The World
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500286574 | | ISBN-13 978-0500286579 | | | | 25.4 x 20.0 cm | | Flexibound PLC (no jacket) | | 608pp | | Illustrated in colour and duotone throughout | | First published 2006 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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